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Legal music downloads - for free

Updated on 25 January 2008

By Benjamin Cohen

New music download site Qtrax will offer customers free and legal songs to download - but what does this mean for sites that charge?

Good news for music fans. A music download site called Qtrax with a library containing over 25 million songs has been unveiled offering customers free and legal songs to download.

Unlike the previous illegal sites opposed by the industry, this site will give the music industry two thirds of the revenue generated from the adverts that come with the downloads.

But the site has huge implications for existing sites that charge.

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